The law firm Singh & Associates, which has been on a lateral hiring spree this year, has been raided by the government’s Income Tax Department (ITD) yesterday as part of a raid on its founding partner Manoj K Singh.

19:27: Apologies for the slight delay in updates. The order is out and has told the parties to mediate with Sriram Panchu tomorrow (Saturday 17 October) or by Sunday (18 October) at the latest, but without granting any stay orders to Saraf (which puts him in the position where he is locked out of his firm email and Luthra has notified all clients that they can’t work with him, even on ongoing matters).

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Bhoumick Vaidya, partner at Mumbai solicitors firm Kanga & Co, in as a partner with his team of five.

L&L Partners managing partner Rajiv Luthra has written an email to clients notifying them that senior partner Mohit Saraf was “no longer authorised” to act on behalf of the firm. The email follows the removal of Saraf’s name from L&L’s website and the posting of armed guards outside the doors of the firm’s corporate office in Delhi.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has paid out bonuses to its fee-earners at the end of last week, pretty much on time and after having evaluated the financial situation over the past few months. The fee-earner bonuses at JSA consist of performance related amounts, following a detailed appraisal process, sep...

L&L Partners has announced the promotion of five of its lawyers in its corporate partnership, a hint of business as usual against the continuing backdrop of the bitter dispute between the two sole equity partners over the future of the firm. Senior partner Mohit Saraf had made the announcement ...

Senior partner Mohit Saraf, who holds a 33.4% equity stake in L&L Partners, has internally announced that managing partner Rajiv Luthra has effectively “retired” and “withdrawn” from L&L Partners and that Saraf would “reconstitute” the firm without him. This latest shot in the war of words follows managing partner Rajiv Luthra’s previously telegraphed announcement that he had

Khaitan & Co has announced that all 49 law school graduates whom it had made campus offers to over the past years, would join the firm on 12 October 2020.

L&L Partners senior partner Mohit Saraf has accused managing partner Rajiv Luthra of “misconduct and subterfuge”, “malafide actions” and breaching “fiduciary duties”, in his response to a public 24 hour deadline sent by Luthra in an email on Sunday evening.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has internally announced that the firm “hoped” that staff would “start coming back to work gradually, in a staggered manner” from 19 October.

The managing partner and 66.6% majority equity holder at L&L Partners, Rajiv Luthra, has made an offer to the firm that he would be willing to dilute his equity unilaterally and without the agreement or dilution of 33.4% co-partner Mohit Saraf under a 1999 deed, if the latter does not respond by 6pm today.

Algo Legal has laterally added another partner, Abhinav Bhalaik from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas - alongside Nishith Desai Associates’ Richie Sancheti.

Geeta Dhania , the remaining capital markets partner at L&L Partners immediately after the mass exodus of the team to IndusLaw, has resigned, reported Bar & Bench . Dhania had worked at Luthra & Luthra, as it then was, since graduating from NLSIU Bangalore in 2005. In 2015 she became ...

Algo Legal Delhi-based partner Jitender Tanikella has joined AZB & Partners in Mumbai as a counsel today, according to his Linked-in profile.

AZB & Partners has promoted GLC Mumbai 2010 graduate Punita Gupta to partner.

Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) investment funds head, Richie Sancheti, who had been with the firm for 13 years, is due to join Algo Legal, we reliably understand.

Sumit Roy promoted at Alpha from associate partner A lpha Partners has promoted associate partner Sumit Roy , who is heading the firm’s disputes practice, to partner. The promotion of the 2010 IMS Law College Noida graduate takes effect from 1 October. He had joined the firm in 2013, with a stint at...

Kochhar & Co has hired two K Law Delhi partners - Pradeep Ratnam, who effectively headed its office in the city, and Parul Verma; both specialise in banking and finance.

Just before 3pm yesterday (Thursday, 24 September), all staff and fee-earners at L&L Partners received an email from managing partner Rajiv Luthra, announcing a virtual townhall for 5pm that day.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 84 associates to senior or principal associate level, with the majority of these - 58% - being based in the Delhi region, closely followed by Mumbai.